The streets of Borovsk have become a playground. It is on the walls of this city located a hundred kilometers from Moscow that he works to draw messages advocating peace.
Russian retiree Vladimir Ovtchinnikov plays a game of cat and mouse with the police. He paints anti-war messages on the walls and they erase them.
For decades, he has created murals in the small town of Borovsk, 115 kilometers southwest of Moscow, to criticize Stalin-era repression and, in recent years, President Vladimir Putin.
But with the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, his works now denounce the war, which has earned him several fines for having “discredited the army”, but this will not prevent him from continuing to paint in the streets of Borovsk .